Timeline of British Writers _Study for UGCNET
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1
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Caedmon-
680 AD
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Hymn of
Nine Historically Precious
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2
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Cynewulf -720
or 730 AD
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Dream of
the Rood
Elene
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Christ
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3
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Venerable
Bede- 673-735
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Ecclesiastical
History of the English People
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4
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King
Alfred-( 849- 901)
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Ecclesiastical
History
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5
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John Wyclif-(1320-1384)
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English
Language Bible Manuscripts
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6
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Geoffrey
Chaucer-(1340-1400)
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The Book
of the Duchess (1369)
The House
of Fame (1379-80)
Troilus
and Criseyde (1380s)
The
Parliament of Fowls (1381-82)
The
Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)
“The
Parson’s Tale”
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7
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Petrarch
–(1304-1374)
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The Secret (Secretum) (1347)
Triumphs (1351-74)
Canzoniere ("Songbook")
“Breeze, blowing
that blonde curling hair” (Sonnet 227)
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8
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Boccaccio (1313-1375)
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Decameron (1349-53)
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9
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John Gower
(1332-1408)
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Speculum
Meditantis (Mirour de l'Omme)
(1376-79)
Vox
Clamantis (The Voice of One Crying Out) (1377-81)
Confessio
Amantos (The Lover’s Confession) (1386-93)
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10
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William
Langland (1330-1400)
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The Vision
of William Concerning Piers the Plowman (1370-90)
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11
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John
Barbour (1316-90)
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The Brus
(1375)
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12
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Thomas
Occleve (1370-1450)
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“Mother of
God”
“Balade to
the Virgin and Christ”
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13
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John
Lydgate- (1370-1451)
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The Troy
Book (1412-1420)
Siege of
Thebes (1420-22)
The Fall
of Princes (1431-38)
“The
Complaint of the Black Knight”
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14
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William
Dunbar-(1465-1530)
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The
Thistle and the Rose
“The
Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy”
Dance of
the Seven Deadly Sins
“The
Lament of the Makaris” (1505)
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15
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Sir Thomas
Malory-(1450-1500)
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Le Morte
Dathur (The Death of Arthur) (1485)
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16
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William
Tyndale-(1494-1536)
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English
New Testament(1525)
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17
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Sir Thomas
More
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Utopia-(1516)
Latin (1551) English
History of King Richard III (1513-18)
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18
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Roger
Ascham (1515-68)
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Toxophilus,
or School of Shooting (1545)
The
Schoolmaster(1570)
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19
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Sir Thomas
Wyatt (1503-42)
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“Whose
list to hunt”
“My galley
charged with forgetfulness”
“They flee
from me”
“Farewell
love”
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20
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Henry
Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516-47)
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“Alas so
all things now do hold their peace”
“Complaint
of the Absence of Her love Being Upon the Sea”
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21
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Thomas
Sackville (1536-1608)
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Induction
(1563)
Complaint
of Buckingham(1574)
Gorduduc
(1561) with Thomas Norton
Mirror for
Magistrates (1563)
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21.5
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Nicholas
Udall (1505-1556)
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Ralph
Roister Doister (1553)
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22
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Edmund
Spenser-(1552-1599)
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Shepherds
Calendar (1579)
Astrophel
(1586)
The Faery
Queen (1590)
Amoretti (1595)
Epithalmium
(1595)
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23
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Sir Philip
Sydney-(1554-86)
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Astrophel
and Stella (1591)
Arcadia
(1590,1598)
Apology
for Poetry (1595)
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24
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John
Donne-(1573-1631)
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“The
Good-Morrow”
“The
Canonization”
“Batter My
Hear, Three Personed God”
“The Sunne
Rising”
“Forbidding
Mourning”
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26
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John Lyly-(1554-1606)
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Euphues
(1584)
Endymion
(1592)
The Woman
in the Moon
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27
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Christopher
Marlowe (1564-93)
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Tamburlaine
the Great (1588)
Doctor
Faustus (1592)
The Jew of
Malta (1592)
Edward II
(1593)
The Hero
and the Leander (completed by George Chapman)
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28
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William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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Romeo and
Juliet (1594)
The
Merchant of Venice (1596)
Much Ado
About Nothing (1598)
Julius
Caesar (1599)
Hamlet
(1601)
Twelfth
Night (1601)
Othello
(1604)
King Lear
(1605)
Macbeth
(1605)
Anthony
and Cleopatra (1606)
The Tempest
(1611)
Venus and
Adonis (1593)
The Rape
of Lucrece (1594)
“Fear no
more the heat of the Sun” (song from Cymbeline)
“The
Lunatic, the lover and the Poet”
“Shall I
compare thee to a Summer’s Day” (18)
“When, in
disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” (29)
“When to
the sessions of sweet silent thought” (30)
“Nor
marble nor the gilded monuments” (55)
“To me,
fair friend, you never can be old” (104)
“When in
the chronicle of wasted time” (106)
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (116)
“My
mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” (130)
“So, now I
have confess’d that he is thine” (134)
“When my
love swears” (138)
“My love is as a fever, longing still” (147)
“In loving
thee thou knowest I am forsworn” (152)
“The little love-god lying once
asleep” (154)
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29
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Ben
Jonson-(1573-1637)
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Every Man
in His Humour(1598)
Volpone,
or the Fox (1608)
Epicoene
or the Silent Woman (1609)
The
Alchemist (1610)
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30
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John
Webster (1580-1625)
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White
Devil (1612)
Duchess of
Malfi (1614)
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31
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John
Fletcher (1579-1625)
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The
Scornful Lady (1616)
A Wife for
a Month(1647)
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32
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Francis
Beaumont (1584-1616) with Fletcher
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The Maid’s
Tragedy(1611)
A King and
No King(1619)
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33
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Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
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Advancement
of Learning (1605)
Novum
Organum (1620)
Essays, or
Counsels Civil and Moral (1597,1612,1625)
“Of
Studies”
“On
Friendship”
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34
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Walter
Raleigh (1554-1618)
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History of
the World (1614)
The
Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd(1596)
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35
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Richard
Hooker(1554-1600)
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Learned
Discourse of Justification(1585)
Ecclesiastical
Polity (1594-97)
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36
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John
Milton (1608-1674)
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L’Allergo
and Il Penseroso (1633)
Comus
(1634
Lycidas(
1637)
Areopagitica
(1644)
Paradise
Lost (1667)
Paradise
Regained (1671)
Samson
Agonistes (1671)
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37
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Robert
Herrick (1591-1674)
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Noble
Number(1647)
Hesperides
(1648)
“To the
Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
"Corinna's
Going a-Maying"
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38
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Thomas
Carew(1598-1639)
Sir John
Suckling(1609-42)
Richard
Lovelace(1618-58)
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“He that
Loves a Rosy Cheek” [Cavalier Poets]
“Why so
pale and wan, fond Lover?”
“To Althea
From Prison”
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39
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Andrew
Marvell (1621-78)
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“The
Garden”
“The
Horation Ode”
“To His
Shy Mistress”
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40
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George
Herbert (1593-1633)
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“The
Temple”
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41
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Abraham
Cowley (1613-1667)
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The
Mistress (1647)
Pindarique
Odes (1656)
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42
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Sir Thomas
Browne (1605-82)
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Religio
Medici (1635)
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43
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Izaak
Walton (1593-1683)
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The
Complete Angler (1653)
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44
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Thomas
Hobbes (1588-1679)
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The
Leviathan (1651)
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45
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John
Dryden (1631-1700)
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Annus
Mirabilis (1667)
All for
Love (1667)
Easy of
Dramatic Poesy (1668)
Conquest
of Granada (1670)
Absalom
and Achitophel (1681)
Religio Laici
(1682)
The Hind
and the Panther (1687)
Alexander’s
Feast, or the Power of the Music (1697)
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46
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Samuel
Butler (1612-80)
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Hudibras
(1678) a satire of Puritans (Don Quixote)
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47
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John
Bunyan (1628-88)
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Grace
Abounding (1660)
The
Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
The Life
and Death of Mr. Badman (1680)
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48
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Sir
William Temple (1628-99)
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49
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John Locke
(1632-1704)
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Essay on
Human Understanding (1689)
Thoughts
Concerning Education (1693)
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50
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John
Evelyn (1633-1703)
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Diary
(from 1660-1669)
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51
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Alexander
Pope (1688-1744)
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Pastorals
(1709)
An Essay
on Criticism (1711)
Messiah
(1712)
The Rape
of the Lock (1712)
Windsor
Forest (1713)
Translation
of Iliad (1715-20)
The Works
of Shakespeare (1723-25)
Translation
of Odyssey (1726)
The
Duncaid (1728)
Essay on
Man (1733-34)
“An Epistle
to Dr. Arbuthnot” (1735)
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52
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Matthew
Prior (1644-1721)
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The City
Mouse and Country Mouse (1687) [parody of Hind and Panther]
Alma, or
the Progress of Mind (1709)
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52.5
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William
Congreve (1670-1729)
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The Old
Bachelor (1693)
The Double
Dealer (1693)
The Way of
the World (1695)
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53
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John Gay
(1685-1732)
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The
Shepherd’s Week (1714)
Trivia, or
the Art of Working the Streets of London (1716)
The
Beggar’s Opera (1728)
Achilles
(1733)
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54
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Robert
Blair (1699-1746)
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The Grave (1743)
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55
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Daniel
Defoe (1661-1731)
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A Shortest
Way with Dissenters (1702)
Robinson
Crusoe (1719)
Captain
Singleton (1720)
The
Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720)
A Journal
of the Plague Year (1722)
Colonel
Jack (1722)
Moll Flanders
(1722)
Roxona:
The Fortunate Mistress (1724)
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56
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Jonathon
Swift (1667-1745)
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The Battle
of Books (1704)
A Tale of
a Tub (1704)
An
Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712)
Gulliver’s
Travels (1726)
A Modest
Proposal (1729)
Journal to
Stella (1766)
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57
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Joseph
Addison (1672-1719)
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The
Spectator (1711) [274 essays]
Cato, a
tragedy play (1713)
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58
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Sir
Richard Steele (1673-1729) Isaac
Bickerstaff
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The Tatler
(1709)
The
Spectator (1711) [240 essays]
The Conscious
Lovers (1722)
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59
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John
Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
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The
History of John Bull (1712)
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60
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Samuel Johnson
(1709-84)
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London
(1738)
Vanity of
Human Wishes (1749)
Irene
(1749)
The
Rambler (March, 1750)
A
Dictionary of English Language (1755)
Rasselas
(1759)
The Lives
(1779)
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61
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Oliver
Goldsmith (1728-1774)
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The
Traveller (1764)
The Vicar
of Wakefield (1776)
She Stoops
to Conquer (1776)
The
Citizen of the World (1760-62)
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62
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David Hume
(1711-76)
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History of
England (1754-1661)
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63
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Edward
Gibbon (1737-94)
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History of
the Decline and the Fall of Roman Empire (1776)
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64
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Edmund
Burke (1729-97)
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Inquiry
into the Origin of Our Ideas (1757)
Reflections
on the Revolution of France (1790)
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65
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Thomas
Paine (1737-1809)
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The
American Crisis (1776)
Rights of
Man (1791)
The Age of
Reason (1794,1807)
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66
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Samuel
Richardson (1689-1761)
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Pamela, or
Virtue Rewarded (1740)
Clarissa
Harlowe (1744-48)
Sir
Charles Grandison (1753)
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67
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Henry
Fielding (1707-54)
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Joseph
Andrews , or The
History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham
Adams (1742)
Tom Jones (1749)
Amelia (1751)
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68
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Tobias
Smollett (1721-71)
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The
Adventures of Roderick Random (1748)
The
Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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69
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Rev
Laurence Sterne (1713-68)
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Life and
Opinions of Tristram Shandy the Gentleman (1759-1767)
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70
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R.B
Sheridan (1751-1816)
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The Rivals
(1774)
St
Patrick’s Day; or the Scheming Lieutenant (1775)
The School
for Scandal (1777)
The
Critic: or, a Tragedy Rehearsed (1779)
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71
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Horace
Walpole (1717-1797)
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Castle of
Otranto (1765)
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72
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Ann
Radcliffe (1764-1823)
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Romance of
Forest (1791)
The
Mysteries of Udolpho (61794)
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73
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James Thomson
(1700-48)
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Seasons
–Winters (1726)
Summer (1727)
Spring (1728)
Autumn (1730)
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74
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William
Blake (1757-1827)
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Poetical
Sketches (1783)
Songs of
Innocence (1789)
The Books
of Thel (1788-1790)
Songs of
Experience (1789)
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75
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Thomas
Gray (1716-71)
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On a
Distant Prospect of Eton College (1747)
Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
“The
Progress of Poesy”
“Ode on
the Death of a Favourite Cat”
The Bard
(1757)
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76
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Robert
Burns (1759-96)
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The Cotter’s
Saturday Night (1786)
“A Red,
Red Rose”
“To a
Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church “(1786)
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77
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William
Cowper (1731-1800)
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God Moves
in Mysterious Ways (1773)
Olney
Hymns (1779)
The Task
(1785)
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78
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William
Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Lyrical
Ballads (1798) 19 poems
The
Borders (1842)
The
Prelude (1850)
“Summer
Vacation”
“Tintern
Abbey”
“She Dwelt
Among the Untrodden Ways”
“Strange
Fits of Passion Have I known”
“The
Solitary Reaper”
“I
Wandered lonely as a Cloud”
“Odes on
the Intimations of Immortality”
“Resolution
and Independence”
“Ode to
Duty”
“Liberty”
“The World
is Too Much with Us”
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79
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Samuel
Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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“The Lime
-Tree Bower My Prison”
Lyrical
Ballads (1798) 4 poems
Christabel
(1816)
“Kubla
Khan” (1816)
Biographia
Literaria (1817)
“Dejection:
an Ode”
“Work
Without Hope”
“Frost at
Night”
“Youth and
Age”
“Table
Talk” (1835)
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80
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Robert
Southey (1774-1843)
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Joan of
Arc (1798)
The Curse
of Kehama (1810)
A Vision
of Judgement (1821)
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81
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Walter
Scott (1771-1832)
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The
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1803)
The Lay of
the Last Minstrel (1805)
Marmion
(1808)
The Lady
of the Lake (1810)
Waverley
(1814)
The Heart
of Midlothian (1818)
The Legend
of Montrose (1819)
Ivanhoe
(1820)
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82
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Lord Byron
(1788-1824)
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Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage (1812)
The
Prisoner of Chillon (1816)
The Vision
of Judgement (1822)
Don Juan
(1819-1824)
Manfred
(1817)
The
Deformed Transformed (1824)
“She Walks
in Beauty”
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83
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Percy
Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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The
Necessity of Atheism (1811)
A Vindication
of Natural Diet (1813)
Queen Mab:
A Philosophical Poem (1813)
Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude (1815)
The Revolt
of Islam (1817)
“Ozymandias”
(1818)
“Ode to
the West Wind” (1819)
Prometheus
Unbound (1820)
“To a
Skylark” (1820)
“The
Cloud” (1820)
Adonais
(1821)
The
Defence of Poetry (1840)
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84
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John Keats
(1795-1821)
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“On First
Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (1816)
Hyperion
(1817)
Endymion
(1818)
Isabella
(1819)
“The Eve
of St Agnes” (1819)
“Lamia”
(1820)
“La Belle
Dame Sans Merci” (1819)
“Ode to
Nightingale” (1819)
“Ode on a
Grecian Urn”(1819)
“Ode on
Melancholy” (1819)
“Ode on
Indolence” (1819)
“Ode to
Psyche” (1819)
“Ode to
Autumn” (1820)
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85
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Thomas De
Quincey (1785-1859)
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Confessions
of an English Opium Eater (1822)
On the
Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1823)
On Murder
Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827)
The
English Mail-Coach (1849)
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86
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Charles
Lamb (1775-1834)
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Tales from
Shakespeare (1807)
Essays of
Elia (1823)
Last
Essays of Elia (1833)
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87
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William
Hazlitt (1778-1830)
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The Round
Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners (1817)
Characters
of Shakespeare’s Plays (1817)
Table
-Talk (1821)
The Indian
Jugglers (1821)
The Spirit
of the Age (1825)
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88
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Maria
Edgeworth (1767-1849)
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Castle
Rackrent (1800)
The Absentee
(1812)
Ormond
(1817)
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89
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Jane
Austen (1775-1817)
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Sense and
Sensibility (1811)
Pride and
Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield
Park (1814)
Emma
(1815)
Persuasion
(1817)
Northanger
Abbey (1817)
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90
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Alfred
Lord Tennyson (1809-92)
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“The Lady of Shalott” (1832,1842)
“The Lotus
Eaters” (1833)
““Ulysses”
(1833)
“Locksley
Hall” (1842)
Break,
Break, Break” (1842)
The
Princess (1847)
“Tears,
Idle Tears”
In
Memoriam (1850)
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1854)
Maud and
Other Poems (1855)
Idylls
of the King (1859, 1889)
Queen Mary
(1875)
Harold
(1876)
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91
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Robert
Browning (1812-89)
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Pauline
(1833)
Bells and
Pomegranates (1846)
Christmas
Eve and Easter Day (1850)
Men and
Women (1855)
The Ring
and the Book (1868-69)
“My Last
Duchess”
“Porphyria’s
Lover”
“Pippa
Passes”
“The Last
Ride Together”
“The Pied
Piper of Hamelin”
“Fra Lippo
Lippi”
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92
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Mathew
Arnold (1822-1888)
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A Summer
Night (1852)
Sohrab and
Rustam (1853)
“The
Scholar Gypsy”
“Thyrsis”
“Dover
Beach”
Essays on
Criticism (1865 & 1889)
Culture and
Anarchy (1869)
Literature
and Dogma (1873)
The Study
of Poetry (1880)
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93
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Elizabeth
Barrett Browning (1806-61)
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“Sonnet
24”
“How Do I
Love Thee?”
The Cry of
Children (1840)
Sonnets
From the Portuguese (1850)
Lord
Walter’s Wife (1856)
Aurora
Leigh (1856)
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94
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Dante
Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
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The
Blessed Damozel (1875-78)
World’s
Worth
The House
of Life (1870)
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95
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Thomas Carlyle (1795)
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The Life
of Schiller (1825)
Sartor
Resartus:The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh (1833-34)
The French
Revolution (1837)
Oliver
Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches (1845)
On Heroes,
Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841)
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96
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John
Ruskin (1819-1900)
|
Salsette
and Elephanta (1839)
Modern
Painters (1843-60)
The Seven
Lamps of Architecture (1849)
Unto this Last
(1861)
Sesame and
Lilies (1865)
|
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97
|
Thomas
Babington Macaulay (1800-59)
|
Lays of
Ancient Rome (1842)
History of
England from the Accession of James II (1849)
|
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98
|
John
Richard Green (1837-
83)
|
A Short
History of the English People (1874)
The
Conquest of England (1883)
|
|
99
|
Edward
August Freeman (1832-92)
|
The
History of the Norman Conquest of England (1867-79)
|
|
100
|
Charles
Dickens (1812-1870)
|
Sketches
by Boz (1836)
The
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836)
Oliver
Twist (1837)
The Old
Curiosity Shop (1840)
American
Notes (1841)
A
Christmas Carol (1843)
David
Copperfield (1849)
Bleak
House (1852)
Hard Times
(1852)
A Tale of
Two Cities (1859)
Great
Expectations (1860)
|
|
101
|
William
Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63)
|
Vanity
Fair (1847-48)
The Book
of Snobs (1849)
The Book
of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond (1841)
The
Virginians (1857-59)
|
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102
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Charlotte
Bronte (1816-1855)
|
Jane Eyre
(1847)
Shirley
(1849)
Villette
(1853)
The
Professor (1857)
|
|
103
|
Emily
Bronte (1818-48)
|
Wuthering
Heights (1847)
“No Coward
Soul is Mine”
“Cold in
the Earth, and the deep snow piled above thee”
|
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104
|
George
Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-80)
|
Adam Bede
(1859)
The Mill
on the Floss (1860)
Romola
(1863)
Middlemarch,
a Study of Provincial Life (1871-72)
Daniel
Deronda (1876)
|
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105
|
Benjamin
Disraeli (1804-81)
|
Vivian
Gray (1826-27)
Sybil: or
The Two Nations (1845)
Tancred:
or the New Crusade (1847)
|
|
106
|
George
Meredith (1829-1909)
|
The Egoist
(1859)
Modern
Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads (1862)
|
|
107
|
Robert
Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
|
Treasure
Island (1883)
Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Kidnapped
(1886)
|
|
108
|
William
Collins (1824-89)
|
The Dead
Secret (1857)
The Woman
in White (1860)
The
Moonstone (1868)
|
|
109
|
Anthony
Trollope (1815-82)
|
The Warden
(1855)
Barchester
Towers (1857)
Dr Thorne
(1858)
|
|
110
|
Elizabeth
Gaskell (1810-65)
|
Mary
Barton, A Tale of Manchester Life (1848)
North and
South (1855)
Sylvia’s
Lovers (1863)
|
|
111
|
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
|
The
Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Lady
Windermere’s Fan (1892)
The
Importance of Being Ernest (1895)
|
|
112
|
Samuel
Butler (1835-1902)
|
Erewhon
(1872)
The Way of
the All Flesh (1903)
|
|
113
|
Thomas
Hardy (1840-1928)
|
Under the
Greenwood Tree (1872)
A Pair of
Blue Eyes (1873)
Far from
the Madding Crowd (1874)
The Return
of the Native (1878)
The Mayor
of Castorbridge (1886)
The
Woodlanders (1887)
Tess of
the d’Urbervilles (1891)
Jude the
Obscure (1895)
The
Dynasts (1908)
|
|
114
|
Rudyard
Kipling (1865-1936)
|
Tales from
the Hills (1888)
“The Man
Who Would Be King” (1888)
Soldiers
Three (1888)
The Light
That Failed (1890)
Barrack-room
Ballads (1892)
The Jungle
Book (1894)
Captains Courageous (1897)
Kim (1901)
The Five
Nations (1903)
Buck of
Pook’s Hill (1906)
Barrack-room
Ballads (1892)
|
|
115
|
Francis
Thompson (1859-1907)
|
Sister
Songs (1895)
New Poems
(1897)
“The Hound of Heaven”
(1893)
“At Lord’s”
|
|
116
|
AE Housman
(1859-1936)
|
A
Sropshire Lad (1896)
Last Poems
(1922)
“To An
Athlete Dying Young” (1896)
“Loveliest
of trees, the cherry now”
|
|
117
|
Robert
Bridges (1844-1930)
|
Shorter
Poems (1890,94)
New Verse
(1925)
“The
Testament of Beauty” (1929)
“The
Growth of Love”
“Eros and
Psyche”
|
|
118
|
Rupert
Brooke (1887-1915)
|
Poems
(1911)
1914
(1915)
“The
Soldier”
“1914”
“The Old
Vicarage”
“The Great
Lover”
|
|
119
|
Julian
Grenfell (1888-1915)
|
“Into
Battle”
“To a
Black Greyhound”
“Prayer
for Those on Staff”
|
|
120
|
Siegfried
Sassoon (1886-1969)
|
The Old
Huntsman (1917)
Counterattack
and Other Poems (1918)
Memoirs of
a Fox-Hunting Man (1928)
Memoirs of
an Infantry Officer
“Counterattack”
“The Last Meeting”
“Suicide
in the Trenches”
“The Poet
As Hero”
“To His
Dead Body”
“Everyone
Sang”
|
|
121
|
Wilfred
Owen (1893-1918)
|
“Strange
Meeting”
“Anthem
for Doomed Youth”
“Futility”
“The
Parable of the Old Men and the Young”
“Dulce Et
Decorum Est”
|
|
122
|
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Nobel Prize 1925
|
Widowers’
Houses (1893)
Mrs
Warren’s Profession (1902)
Arms and
the Man (1894)
Candida
(1897)
You Never
Can Tell (1899)
Man and
Superman (1905)
|
|
123
|
John
Millington Synge (1871-1909)
|
Riders to
the Sea (1904)
The Aran
Islands (1907)
The
Playboy of the Western World (1907)
|
|
124
|
Sean
O’Casey (1880-1964)
|
The Shadow
of a Gunman (1923)
Juno and
the Paycock (1925)
The Plough and the Stars (1926)
|
|
125
|
John
Galsworthy (1867-1933)
Nobel Prize 1932
|
The
Forsyte Saga (1922) (a novel series)
The Silver
Box (1906)
Strife
(1909)
Justice
(1910)
|
|
126
|
George
Moore- (1857-1933)
|
A Modern
Lover (1883)
Esther
Waters (1894)
|
|
127
|
Herbert
George Wells (1866-1946)
|
The Time
Machine (1895)
The
Invisible Man (1897)
Tono-Bungay
(1909)
The
History of Mr. Polly (1910)
|
|
128
|
Joseph
Conrad (1857-1924)
|
Almayer’s
Folly (1895)
The Nigger
of the “Narcissus” (1897)
Lord Jim
(1900)
Heart of
Darkness (1902)
Nostromo
(1904)
The Secret
Agent (1907)
Under
Western Eyes (1911)
|
|
129
|
Arnold
Bennett (1867-1931)
|
Anna of
the Five Towns (1902)
The Old
Wives’ Tale (1908)
Buried
Alive (1908)
|
|
130
|
Lytton
Strachey(1880-1932)
|
Eminent Victorians (1918)
Queen
Victoria (1921)
|
|
131
|
Gerard
Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
|
Collected
Poems (1918)
“Spring
and Fall”
“Pied
Beauty”
“God’s
Grandeur”
“The
Windhover”
|
|
132
|
William
Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Nobel Prize 1932
|
The
Wanderings of Oisin, and Other Poems (1889)
The Wind
Among the Reeds (1889)
The Tower
(1929)
The
Winding Stairs (1929)
A Vision
(1925)
“”Leda and
Swan”
“Easter
1916”
“The
Second Coming”
“Sailing
to Byzantium”
“The
Celtic Twilight”
“The
Tower”
“Among
School Children”
|
|
133
|
Thomas
Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
Noble Prize 1948
|
Prufrock
and Other Observations (1917)
The Sacred
Wood (1920)
The Waste
Land (1922)
Selected
Essays (1917-32)
“The
Journey of Magi” (1927)
Ash
Wednesday (1930)
Burnt Norton (1936)
Easter Coker (1940)
The Dry Salvages (1941)
Little Giddings (1942)
Four Quartets (1943)
Murder in
Cathedral (1935)
The Family
Reunion (1939)
The
Cocktail Party (1949)
|
|
134
|
WH Davies
(1871-1940)
|
The
Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908)
A Poet’s
Pilgrimage (1918)
Later Days
(1925)
“Songs of
Joy”, “Dragonfly”
|
|
135
|
W.H Auden
(1907-1973)
|
The
Orators (1932)
Stranger
(1936)
The Age of
Anxiety (1948)
“Funeral Blues”
“September
1, 1939”
“Night
Mail”
“In Memory
of W.B Yeats”
|
|
136
|
Stephen
Spender (1909-77)
|
Vienna
(1934)
World
Within World (1951)
The Temple
(1988)
“The
Fates”
“Auden’s
Funeral”
|
|
137
|
Ezra Pound
(1885-1972)
|
Hugh
Selwyn Mobberly (1920)
The Pisan
Cantos (1948)
“In a
Station of the Metro”
“Ballad of
the Goodly Fere”
|
|
138
|
David
Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
|
The White
Peacock (1911)
Sons and
Lovers (1913)
The
Rainbow (1915)
Women in
Love (1921)
The Plumed
Serpent (1926)
Lady
Chatterley’s Lover (1928 Italy) (1929
France and Australia) (1932 Britain) ( 1960 unexpurgated version)
England,
my England (1922)
|
|
139
|
James
Joyce (1882-1941)
|
Dubliners
(1914)
A Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Exiles
(1918)
Ulysses
(1922) England (1933)
Finnegan’s
Wake (1939)
|
|
140
|
Virginia
Woolf (1882-1941)
|
The Voyage
Out (1915)
Jacob’s
Room (1922)
Mrs
Dalloway (1925)
To the
Lighthouse (1927)
A Room of
One’s Own (1929)
The Waves
(1931)
Flush
(1933)
Between
the Acts (1941) unfinished
The Moment
(1947)
|
|
141
|
Edward
Morgan Forster (1879-1970)
|
Where
Angels fear to Tread (1905)
A Room
with a View (1908)
Howards
End (1910)
A Passage
to India (1924)
Aspects of
the Novel (1927)
Abinger
Harvest (1936)
Two Cheers
for Democracy (1951)
|
|
142
|
Aldous
Huxley (1894-1963)
|
Mortal
Coils (1922) short story collection
Antic Hay
(1923)
Point
Counter Point (1928)
Brave New
World (1932)
|
|
143
|
William
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
|
Of Human
Bondage (1915)
The Moon
and Sixpence (1919)
The
Razor’s Edge (1944)
The
Constant Wife (1926)
|
|
144
|
JB
Priestly (1894-1984)
|
The
English Comic Characters (1925)
The
English Novel (1927)
The Good
Companions (1929)
Angel
Pavement (1930)
|
|
145
|
TE
Lawrence (1888-1935)
|
Seven
Pillars of Wisdom (1926)
|
|
146
|
Freya
Start (1893-1993)
|
The Valley
of Assassins (1934)
|
|
147
|
Katherine
Mansfield (1888-1923)
|
“The
Garden Party” (1922)
“Bliss”
“The
Voyage”
|
|
148
|
George
Orwell (1903-1950) Eric Arthur Blair
|
Down and
Out in Paris and London (1933)
Burmese
Days (1934)
Homage to
Catalonia (1938)
Animal
Farm (1945)
1984
(1949)
Such, Such
Were the Joys (1952) (autobiographical)
“Shooting
an Elephant”
“Politics
and the English Language”
|
|
149
|
Dylan
Thomas (1914-1953)
|
18 Poems
(1934)
The Map of
Love (1939)
Death and
Entrances (1946)
Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940)
Under Milk
Wood (1954)
“Fern
Hill”
“Do not go
gentle into that good night”
“And Death
Shall Have No Dominion”
“Light
breaks where no sun shines”
|
|
150
|
Philip
Larkin (1922-1985)
|
The Less
Deceived (1955)
The
Whitsun Wedding (1964)
“Church
Going”
“This Be
the Verse”
“The
Whitsun Weddings”
|
|
151
|
Sir
Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
|
Lucky Jim
(1954)
I Like It
Here (1958)
You Can’t
Do Both (1944)
“Wasted”
“A Note on
Wyatt”
|
|
152
|
John Wain
(1925-1994)
|
Hurry On
Down (1953)
Mixed
Feelings (1951)
Weep
Before God (1961)
|
|
153
|
Ted Hughes
(1930-1998)
|
The Hawk
in the Rain (1957)
Lupercal
(1960)
Selected
Poems (1962)
Crow
(1970)
Birthday
Letters (1998)
“Thought
Fox”
“Snowdrop”
“Night
Ride on Ariel”
“Hawk
Roosting”
“Esther’s
Tomcat”
|
|
154
|
Sylvia
Plath (1932-1963)
|
Three
Women (a radio play) (1962)
The Bell
Jar (1963)
Ariel
(1965)
Crossing
the Water (1971)
“Daddy”
“Mad
Girl’s Love Song”
“Edge”
“Morning
Song”
“Ariel”
“A
Birthday Present”
|
|
155
|
Donald
Davie (1922-1995)
|
Purity of
Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy (1994)
Trying to
Explain (1986)
“Out of
East Anglia”
“Sunburst”
|
|
156
|
Seamus
Heaney (1939-2013)
Nobel Prize 1995
|
Death of a
Naturalist (1966)
Door into
the Dark (1969)
The
Midnight Verdict (1993)
Beowulf
(1993)
The Burial
at Thebes (2004)
Human
Chain (2010)
“Mid-Term Break”
“Death of
a Naturalist”
“Clearances”
“Causality”
|
|
157
|
Graham
Greene- (1904-1991)
|
The Man
Within (1929)
Brighton
Rock (1938)
The Power
and the Glory (1940)
The Heart
of the Matter (1948)
The End of
the Affair (1951)
The Quiet
American (1956)
Short Cut
to Hell (1957)
|
|
158
|
Evelyn
Waugh (1903-1966)
|
A Handful
of Dust (1934)
Brideshead
Revisited (1954)
Sword of
the Honour (1965)
Men at Arms (1952)
Officers and Gentlemen (1955)
Unconditional Surrender (1961)
|
|
159
|
Angus
Wilson (1913- 1991)
|
Hemlock
and After (1952)
The Middle
Age of Mrs Eliot (1958)
The Old
Men at the Zoo (1961)
|
|
160
|
Alan
Sillitoe (1928-2010)
|
Saturday
Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
The
Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959)
|
|
161
|
William Golding
(1911-1993)
Nobel Prize 1983
|
Lord of
the Flies (1954)
The
Inheritors (1955)
Pincher
Martin (1956)
The Spire
(1964)
The
Scorpion God (1971)
|
|
162
|
Anthony
Burgess (1917-1993)
|
A
Clockwork Orange (1962)
The
Wanting Seed (1962)
|
|
163
|
JRR
Tolkien (1892-1973)
|
The Hobbit
(1937)
The Lord
of the Rings (1954-55)
|
|
164
|
Muriel
Sarah Spark (1918-2006)
|
The Prime
of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
The Girls
of Slender Means (1963)
The
Driver’s Seat (1970)
|
|
165
|
Jean Iris
Murdoch (1919-1999)
|
Under the
Net (1954)
The Sand
Castle (1957)
The Time
of Angels (1966)
|
|
166
|
Christopher
Fry (1907-2005)
|
The Lady’s
Not For Burning (1948)
Boy with a
Cart (1950)
The Dark
is Light Enough (1954)
|
|
167
|
Bertolt
Brecht (1898-1956)
Karl Karsch was a great influence
|
Baal
(1923)
Threepenny
Opera (1928)
Mother
Courage and Her Children (1941)
The Good
Woman of Setzuan (1943)
A Little
Organum for the Theatre (1949)
|
|
168
|
Samuel
Beckett (1906-1989)
Nobel Prize 1969
|
Murphy
(1938)
Molloy
(1951)
Waiting
for Godot (1952 French; 1954 English)
Watt (1953)
Endgame
(1957)
Krapp’s
Last Tape (1958; 1959)
Happy Days
(1961)
Come and
Go (1966)
|
|
169
|
Robert
Orton Bolt (1924-1995)
|
Flowering
Cherry (1957)
A Man For
All Seasons (1960)
|
|
170
|
John James
Osborne (1929-1994)
at the
Royal Court Theatre |
Look Back
in Anger (1956) English Stage Company
at the Royal Court Theatre
Luther
(1961)
Inadmissible
Evidence (1964)
West of
Suez (1971)
|
|
171
|
John Arden
(1930-2012)
|
Live Like
Pigs (1958)
The Happy
Haven (1960)
Left-Handed
Liberty (1965)
|
|
172
|
Arnold Wesker
(1932-2016)
|
Chicken
Soup with Barley (1958)
Roots
(1959)
I’m
Talking About Jerusalem (1960)
|
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173
|
Tom
Stoppard (1937-)
|
Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)
Jumpers
(1972)
Travesties
(1974)
Dirty
Linen (1976)
|
|
174
|
Harold
Pinter (1930-2008)
Nobel Prize 2005
|
The
Birthday Party (1958)
The Dumb
Waiter (1960)
The
Caretaker (1960)
A Night
Out (1961)
The
Homecoming (1965)
Silence
(1969)
Old Times
(1971)
Betrayal
(1978)
|
|
175
|
Edward
Bond (1934-
|
Saved
(1965)
Lear
(1971)
The Sea
(1973)
Bingo
(1974)
Early
Morning (1968)
|
|
176
|
Joe Orton
(1933-67)
|
Entertaining
Mr Sloane (1964)
Loot
(1965)
What the
Butler Saw (1969)
|
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177
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178
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